Wednesday, 8 July 2015

the ECR 2015 finished in February, but we have forgotten to upload a few photos of our winning party with the trophy and the sheep. We took the Photos in April and would like to show them now to you. We hope you enjoyed the contest as much as we did and we wish you a great summer.
P.S.: the great chain reaction with all countries was the best!
Thanks to belgium for their very good organisation.

Watch the video to see where your team/school/country finished in the ECR 2015 contest!
Congratulations once again to all teams who participated in this fantastic project, and especially to the winners, who are....!! You'll have to watch to find out!

Saturday, 31 January 2015

Just to inform you, all of the votes have been counted and the ECR-2015-newsflash has been recorded last Friday as planned!

So, on Monday we can publish the ECR-2015-newsflash in which we will announce the winner of this years competition! This newsflash will be published on the blog at Monday February 2nd at 11:00 Brussels time, so all of you get to know their position in the final ranking at the same time!

We will show you the European Chain Reaction 2015 then too (all chain reactions combined into ONE CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION), and it will be a real nice and long one, since you all were extremely creative this year! We hope all of you will be pleased with the outcome!

On Tuesday we will upload an overview in a votes-table, so all of you can see how many points you received from which countries. (We won’t publish this on Monday to hold the excitement. Now all of you are obliged to watch the newsflash if you want to know your place in the ranking :-) !)

Greece presents the Chain Reaction entitled "Ringing the bell"
We had a lot of fun constructing the "machine" . It is the first time that we participate in this project and we enjoyed it very much.It was a great learning experience.
We had the opportunity to experiment with different lay-outs.
chain reaction from polina tetteri on Vimeo.

Hello Europe!
Here is our chain reaction for 2015.
As usual it has been a great learning experience. In our video you will see a lego mindstorms line following robot, an Arduino programmed toy car, a catapult and a rocket firing mechanism and a lot more.. Hope you all like it! (-;

Dear friends, the project was made by Kris and my students from 4th grade. They have decided to present a Bulgarian folk tale and a folk children song.

THE HELPER
Bulgarian folk tale

A lumberjack had two sons. Every time when they were in the forest together, he needed help from them. Once lumberjack has prepared the wagon and told his sons:

- Come on, boys, go alone in the forest for firewood. I will stay at home for a rest because I'm very tired.

Boys were delighted that their father could rely on them, and went out in the forest. When the older one left the house, looked back to his father and said:

- Well Dad, if we damage the car, who will fix it?

- No worries - replied the father - if you break down the car, call The Helper, it will fix it.
The boys went into the forest. They started cutting wood hastily, loaded and overloaded the car. The boys decided to go back.

In the middle of the road, when the wagon descended on a downhill, the overloaded car crashed. The boys were scared: but now how we will go back by the broken wagon with the wood? Then the older one reminded the words of his father and they started shouting The Helper:
- Heeeelpeeer!!! Heeeelpeeer!!! Come and fix our car!

None called.

-Heeeelpeeer!!! - Echoed louded the voice. - Come on, we need help!

But the forest was deaf and there wasn't any answer by the support.

It was getting dark. Birds returned to their nests. On the sky appeared pale moon.

The youngest son said:

- It was obvious that the Helper will not come. Who knows where it is now, probably fixing another car or lying under a tree. Let's try to fix the car by ourselves.

- How? - asked the older son. - It is not easy.

- I will engrave a new rod and I will try to replace it.

Said and done. The boy found a dry dogwood, cut it, carved it nice, made new hitch and put it instead of the broken one.

The boys went back.

They unloaded the woods from the car and told their father what had happened.
- Dear Dad, halfway of the road we have broken the hitch. We started calling The Helper - we shouted, shouted... but it did not answer, seemed to be lost in the ground. Then with blood, sweat and tears we have made a new hitch stronger than the old one.
The father smiled and said:

- Well, my sons, you were looking for the Helper, but the Helper was with you. It has helped you to repair the wagon. Think a bit and you'll see I'm right.

Thursday, 22 January 2015

It´s done! We proudly present our first chain reaktion on etwinning ever! It was
hard work to create the outside part, because we had to fight with the
wind and rebuild it several times. In the end we are proud and happy
with the result. It was really a great fun and the children had good
ideas and inventions. We all learned a lot and we hope that you all had
as much fun as we had.Creating the video was a good excercise for us
unexperienced kindergarden teachers.
Greetings and best wishes to all of you!!!

The idea of our chain reaction belongs to the students of the 8th grade. The robots are made by them with lego bricks during their lessons of RobotX and the biscuits are baked in school kitchen by them, too. Hope you like the film.

Greetings from Ireland!!! Our Chain Reaction took a lot of thinking and we worked very hard on it. Pupils from 4th, 5th and 6th class took part in the Chain Reaction. Each class made a different Chain Reaction and we combined them. Hope you enjoy it because we did!!
Chain Reaction Ireland from St. Brendan's on Vimeo.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Hello from Scotland!
Yester Primary school represents Scotland once again this year, with the entry coming from the young children in Primary 3/4, who are 7 or 8 years old.
We have had lots of fun creating our chain reaction, as usual, and the work was done entirely by the children, with no input from adults.
This meant that it was quite difficult for the children, but they tried very hard.
Hope you enjoy watching it, and good luck from us to all the countries involved in 2015!

The pupils from Bila Tserkva Gymnasia #1, Ukraine present their chain reaction.The idea was to combine our hobby quilling and building the chain in making really unusual chain reaction. We spent a lot of time together, used more than 10,000 details and near 2 liters of glue.
This picture shows our country and the beautiful bird which will bring peace to Ukraine.

This work was done by 21 students of the 3rd year of class 3E of the School E.B. 1 António Vitorino in Vieira de Leiria, Portugal, aged 8 and 9 years old. It was a great experience and was also a lot of fun!

Monday, 12 January 2015

We continued with the same circus theme as we had in the human chain reaction.

I downloaded the video here already on the 12th of January. What I didn't realize then, is that I had accidentaly used some illegal music without copyrights. The site where I downloaded that circus-music, seemed all right, but you haven't been able to watch our video in some countries. Here below, on the 24th of Janury, is now the same video, with the new, CC-licenced Circus Music. Enjoy!

And here is still the original one, if you have already given points to it and you want to compare them!﻿

We are happy to be with you!!! Good luck to all of us! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Hello everybody. We are happy to be here and to participate to this extraordinary project. Here we present the video, all the work of which was made by 8th grade students (idea, scenario, video shooting, editing and playing). Hope, you like it!

Hello from Scotland! The Primary 3/4 class, from Yester Primary School who are mostly 7 years old would like to introduce themselves to you here.
We are looking forward very much to creating our Chain Reaction after the Christmas holidays, and we spent some time today enjoying all the other human chain reactions already on the blog.
We'd like to wish all countries taking part "Good Luck" and we hope you all have a lot of fun creating your chain reactions!

our children are 3-6 years old and they really like to build with little bricks and other materials, but they can also create a human chain reaction as you can see in the video. We love to watch your videos and we are very excited to be part of this great challange.

merry christmas and a happy new year
from Germany
Kindergarten Rasselbande

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

The students from 4th grade, 122nd Primary school, Sofia,
Bulgaria, were created the logo's models from LEGO. They worked in teams and
made two mirror images. It was fantastic! The students' creativity is
wonderful! Enjoy the movie!

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Hi, everybody!
Last week we played a bit with "stop motion". Here's the result - all the pupils of the 6th grade in a long, moving row.....
We are now looking forward to our next task: The "real" chain reaction....

Friday, 12 December 2014

The students from EB 1 António Vitorino in Vieira de Leiria, Portugal are participating for the first time in ECR! Students are aged between 8 and 9 years. It was a great challenge and a wonderful experience. We are already thinking about the next! Now we use to see the work of our colleagues in other countries.

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Sweden is participating for the first time in ECR! This Human Chain Reaction-clip shows some of the kids who are participating and who are eagerly testing and trying out how to do the best chain reaction models at school. The kids are in the age of 6-8 years old.
We have been enjoying ourselves looking at the other school´s entries and wish all schools good luck. At the same time we are really happy to be part of something this big together with you. Lets bring Europe together and may the best chain reaction win.
Regards/Johan and the kids at Rödebyskolan

Friday, 5 December 2014

Hello from IcelandHere comes the Human Chain Reaction from 4th grade in Flataskóli - Iceland. Hope you enjoy it.The children worked in groups and made many different chains. We are looking forward to see all the other chains that will be put on this blog. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Good luck for everyone and have fun!

Thursday, 31 July 2014

The European Chain Reaction 2015 is a science/art project for primary schools
wishing to create, film and upload a "Rube-Goldberg/Robert Storm
Petersen-like" chain reaction. This project is a competition and a
European collaboration! The school which uploads the most astonishing, creative
chain reaction not only wins a trophy, but also wins tons of faim! In the
end all videos will be emerged into ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN
REACTION (look at the European Chain Reaction 2014)!

This
eTwinningproject allows as many as possible European schools - all from
different countries - to enter the competition! By entering the competition you
agree to the following rules:

TIMELINE

- When you
enter the competition, your school e-mails an image of the school and a short
text in which the school presents herself!

- Your kids
present themselves in a short video. The best way to do this is by
presenting themselves in a human chain reaction. This video should be
uploaded by Friday December 19th2014.

- You and
your class will have until Friday 23rd January 2015 to
create, practice, film and upload a video of your chain reaction to a videosite
(like Vimeo, Youtube, ...) and embed it in this blog.

- When all
videos are uploaded to the blog every school will watch the entries of the
other participants and will decide on wich countries receive wich amount of points.

All points
should be e-mailed to Dave Schrauwen by Thursday January 29th 2015.

- On Friday January 30th the class of Dave will record a newsflash announcing who will be the winner of the project. The link to this video will be kept secret until Monday February 2nd 11:00

(Brussels time). - On Monday February 2nd 11:00 Brussels time the video will be embedded into the website, so everyone can find out how well they scored in this competition and how fabulous the ECR 2015 really is! The winning school will be sent a specially commissioned trophy, but above all wins the everlasting respect of all the other participants!

RULES

1. Only one
school from each country will be allowed to enter. We would like to have as
many as possible European countries involved!

2. The
European Chain Reaction 2015-project is for primary schools only!

3. Once you
have agreed to enter and submitted your request to the project coordinator,
Dave Schrauwen you will receive an invitation to become a partner in the
project, followed later by a separate invitation to contribute to the project's
blog. You need to sign up for the blog, whereby you will be able to upload your
finished chain reaction in due course. In addition, please send Dave a brief
description of your school, along with a photograph, that Dave will add to the
blog, so that each country can see who is all taking part.

4. All
schools will upload a short video in which they present themselves so all
contestants can get to know their opponents/partners! The best way to do
this is by creating a human chain reaction video!

5. The
actual technological chain reaction should be created and practiced by the
students and their teachers (giving them advice) only! The chain reaction
has to be a technological chain reaction. Children may appear in the video
shortly, but the technological aspect is the most important! Look at the
winning 2011 video for a very good exemple!

6. The
length of the chain reaction video should be at least 30 seconds.
The video may be shot by the teacher or the children

7. Every
partner is responsible for his own entry! When inserting music into the
video, please use music that is copyright free. You could use a creative
commons sound or song. You can find free sounds and music here: http://dig.ccmixter.org/

8. All
entries should be completed by Friday 23rd January 2015.
When your chain reaction is ready, you upload the video of this chain reaction
to the blog, via www.blogger.com using either the “upload
video” section of the site, or by uploading your video to Vimeo, YouTube, ...
then copying and pasting the embed code into your blog post. All files MUST be
uploaded by Friday 23rd Januray, as each country will then
need to watch all the entries and judge them during the following week- Monday
26th - Thursday 29th January.

9. Please
encourage your children to post a comment on the videos sent in by other
countries. By doing so, your children will learn some ICT -skills and learn to express themselves in a foreign language.

10. Once
you and your pupils have watched each entry and chosen your favourites, email
your choices to Dave Schrauwen, BEFORE Friday 30th January, so the pupils of Dave can create and record the newsflash on who is
the winner of the project on Friday January 30th. YOU MUST NOT
VOTE FOR YOUR OWN ENTRY!

11. The newsflash in which the winner of the
competition will be announced and the European Chain Reaction will be showed
will be added to the blog on Monday February 2ndat 11:00 Brussels time, in order
for everyone to find out at the same time who has won the competition!

GOOD LUCK
to all countries! Enjoy making your entry, and watching all the other entries!

Robert S. Peterson Impression

Project history

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011.

The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries.

In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

Blog Archive

This is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project!

Albania

Ninth grade ( elementary and middle high school based on the abroad system) School "Fan S. Noli", is located in the center of Tirana, capital of Albania, with a long history in the teaching field.

This school has a team of 45 teachers, who work with children aged 6-16 years, including two preschool groups (3-5), reaching an approximate number of 1,500 students.

The special thing in our school is the diversity of languages taught as English, French and German as well as activities carried out in different areas. Our school has achieved and has received annual trophies in national and district level in various fields of sports like chess, basketball, cycling, etc .. Our school also distinguished in annual artistic speech competitions and literature.

The distinguishing feature of our school pours out strong connection with the community of parents, to achieve the highest possible results with our students not only in teaching but in the level of general education plan to prepare people better to advance a our society.

We are happy to be part of the "eTwinning", to share with you our experience.

See you soon!

Armenia

Yerevan “Mkhitar Sebastatsi” Educomplex of the Ministry of Education and Scinece of RA is a union of educational institutions: 4 primary school-gardens with their kindergartens, a middle school, three high schools, a career college, centers of further education, realizing author (state alternative) pre-school, primary, basic, secondary, preliminary (vocational), career college experimental educational programs. The Educomplex was founded in 1989 by the resolution of the Government of RA with Ashot Bleyan’s author project, on the bases of Yerevan Secondary School 183. There are services of a psychologist, speech therapist, art therapist, sociologist, educator for the children with special needs and of a social employee for the education of children with special needs. From September 2013 all the teachers and learners of Grades 1-12 attend school with their personal note-book/netbooks and tablets giving a good example to all the public schools of our Republic.The audio recorder, digital photo and video cameras and other digital means are everyday used educational tools in the Educomplex. Besides general education, Educompex has different clubs which run according to the regulations of the Educomplex and curriculums of author educational programs. The aim of the clubs is revelation and enhancement of learners’ preferences (natural gifts).

Austria

Our Jenaplan –School –Wildbach is an elementary school situated in the south of Graz in Styria. Our children are in the age of 6-10 years.

It´s a small school (7 classes) in a rural environment.

For about 10 years the profile of our school is working at the main principles of the "Jenaplan".

The Jenaplan school-concept was developed by Peter Petersen (1884-1952) at the demonstration school (for pre-service teacher education) of the University of Jena, Germany.

Azerbaijan

Our school name is “Zangy” lyceum. The pupils are eager to learn foreing languages very much. Our slogan is “play and learn!” In our school we try to make them love English. We join this project with the 7th grade. They are very diligent and clever pupils.

Belgium

Qworzó is an elementary school in a small village called Merksplas which lays about 70 km north of Brussels.We speak Dutch like they do in the Netherlands, since our school is located in Flanders.Since there are a lot of people in Belgium who speak French we also learn French in school.

Our school teaches about 400 children aged 3,5 – 12 years.We are very enthusiastic about the fifth anniversary of The European Chain Reaction and we hope many schools will join the project!

Croatia

Nikola Andric Primary school: our school is located in the city of Vukovar in the eastern Croatia, in a region called Slavonia. It is of medium size – it has 260 pupils. It tends to keep up with the latest trends of education and improvement of the teaching process, and by doing so, it honors tradition, openness towards cooperation and tolerance. Apart from the regular and elective classes, school offers extracurricular activities, organizes various outdoor classroom activities and other work forms that represent the uniqueness of both the school and the community within which the school operates. Our school also participates in a number of projects. It cherishes and promotes numerous values like multiculturalism, tolerance towards differences, preservation and development of our historical and cultural heritage and national identity, lifelong learning, ecological awareness and many more. The region of Vukovar is special because it suffered tremendous destruction, massive losses, atrocities and traumatization during the Homeland War. Our school can still feel the consequences of that war, seeing that it is the only unrenovated primary school in Vukovar.

Cyprus

Frenaros primary school is a multicultural school, based in free Famagusta area. It has got 268 students, 144 boys and 124 girls. Also, in the school work 26 teachers and 6 other schools' assistant staff. The school participates in Erasmus KA1, etwining programs, "Chrysoprasino fyllo"program (Greece- Cyprus cooperation program about environmental issues).

Frenaros primary school, is a rural school of medium social- economical and educational level status. Though, parents co operate excellent with the school staff for educational results' improvement. The school's building consists of 14 teaching classrooms and 7 other subject classrooms.

Czech Republic

ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A MATEŘSKÁ ŠKOLA MŠEC

We are proud to represent the Czech Republic in this competition. We are a small village basic school not far from the capital city Prague. There are 125 pupils in our school (6 – 15 years old) and 40 in the kindergarten (3 – 6). The primary classes are situated in a former castle (with an interesting history) which makes our school a little special (and romantic). All around the village you can find lots of hop gardens. Do you know what hop is for? You can check our school website with a lot of pictures.

Estonia

Gustav Adolf Grammar School is located in Tallinn, in Estonia. This will be the first year they are in the project.

Finland

Ohkola school is small school with about 80 students in the town of Mäntsälä, in southern Finland. We have 5 teachers and 4 other members of staff here. The school is located in beautiful surroundings which gives the pupils great opportunities to play outside during the breaks. We focus on very good basic teaching, but also ICT, nature and music. Want to know more? Take a look at our schoolwebsite!

France

Our schoolis located in the south of Francein the departmentof Aveyron.Our schoolconsists ofthree classes.Around ourvillage,the land is redand nature isvery wild. You can followthe adventuresof our classon our blog:http://cycle3montlaur.over-blog.com/

Georgia

Batumi Public School N2

The older history thing has, the richer it is. We are proud of our school, because of its eternal history. More than hundred years ago, in Soviet times, in Batumi it was very difficult to set up any new educational establishment, but local community could manage to base women’s gymnasium. In the course of time the gymnasium turned into mixed-gendered public school. Nowadays, the school is divided into two parts. The first one is old historical campus, which was reconstructed, and the second is modern one. Our school has two gyms (but we would like it to be better equipped) the computers class, the biology and chemistry labs. Here you can meet students from all religion confessions and also students with special needs. In the second public school, there are several kinds of clubs where students have possibility to demonstrate their leadership potential. (Such as evil club, drama club, intellectual club etc.) In addition, since 2005 students have great opportunity to participate in all kind of exchange programs all over the world that gives magnificent experience for our pupils to get in touch with European culture and become a part of it.

Germany

The Rasselbande is a kindergarden with 40 children from 1 to 6 years founded in 1989 by parents. We have our own pädagogical concept to support individual learning. We are in the same building as the Freie Schule Kassel and many children go there after leaving our kindergarden.

On the photo you can see our house created by young builders and architects.They

know very well, whats to do with bricks...

Greece

The 2nd Primary School of Chios is located in the centre of the town of Chios , the capital of Chios island in the Aegean Sea of Greece. Our school was founded in 1934. There are 208 students 6-12 years old and 25 teachers including drama , music, art, computer , English, French and German teachers.

Our School has participated in a European Comenius project and in aE-Twinning project too. All the pupils of our School work on projects which are related to a variety of subjects for e.g. Environmental Studies, Healthy Education, Art etc.

The pupils also take part in competitions and put out drama and music performances.

The Sixth Grade of our School will take part in the European Chain Reaction 2015 programme.

Hungary

Teleki Samuel Elementary School is in Érd, Hungary. Érd is a town about 20 km southwest of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.

The school was established in 1933. The name, Samuel Teleki comes from a famous Hungarian geographer and explorer who mapped the last white spots of Africa in the 19th. century. We have chosen this name in 1991, because the school aims to educate students to become responsible, creative and thoughtful young teenagers. Our school is a member of the Hungarian Eco-School Network.

Now we have about 500 students from 1st to 8th grade. Elementary school starts at the age of 6 in Hungary and our students continue to secondary schools at the age of 14. Ther are 59 employees in our school, including 44 teachers.

The school has started to take part in international European projects three years ago. We are looking forward to take part in the European Chain Reaction. We - especially the students of year 5 - hope that it is going to be a great challenge and fun for us.

Iceland

Flataskóli is a compulsory elementary school. The pupils are from 6 to 12 years old (1st to 7th grade) In the school are nearly 300 pupils and about 50 members of staff, teachers and others employees. Flataskóli is located in Garðabær, a town of 10.000 inhabitants, 14 km south of Reykjavík. Flataskóli is the oldest educational establishment in Garðabær and the school is founded on trust and stability. Good behaviour together with a positive attitude and ethos are hallmarks of Flataskóli. The school has a speicial outdoor teaching area in a grove nearby in harmony with a stream and lava. The seashore is within walking distance from school.

Ireland

Our school is a small rural primary school the village of Newmarket in Co. Kilkenny in South East of Ireland. We have 56 pupils and 4 teachers. Our pupils are aged 4-12. We love to take part in eTwinning projects.

Israel

Osishkin School is the heart of Ramat- Hasharon City's Community. It allows a place for a large diversity of students for ages 6-12.

Our school aspires for excellence and welcomes educational and learning achievements focusing on emotional and social skills.

We wish for a positive environment for our children which enhances their sense of belongingness and cherishes the uniqueness of every child.

The school's team of teachers work in collaboration to guide the students and help them fullfill their potential. They set a goal for themselves to help students search and discover new paths while learning that teamwork and friendship are a way of life.

There are no limits to the children's dreams- everything is possible and even the sky is not the limit!

Italy

“Antonio Gramsci” Primary School

Ghilarza ( Oristano) Sardinia (Italy)

Our School is located in Ghilarza , a town of 5000 inhabitants in the centre of Sardinia, close to an artificial lake, about 50 Km from the West coast of the island. In its surroundings there are lots of archaeological sites ( Nuragic and Romanarchitecture and civilisation). Sardinian people speak two languages: Sardo and Italian.

Our school has about 225 children aged 6/11 and 20 teachers.

In school year 2010/2011 we started our European adventure thanks to the presence of a Comenius Assistant and we won the European Label 2011!!.

Latvia

The school is located in the village Sērmūkši, Amata region, about 100 km from our capital Riga. The school is founded in 1934. We have 53 students of primary and preschool education. Students’ age is 2-16 years. We have an experience in projects - eTwinning, Comenius, Nordplus. In 2010 we took part in movie „eTwinning, A Bridge Between European Schools” together with schools from Scotland and France (https://vimeo.com/38373662) More about our school:www.sermuksi.id.lv

Lithuania

ŠIAULIAI „JUVENTA“ SCHOOL

school doors opened in 1971 in its first generation and in 1999/2000 school year, pupils and teachers chose her a new name: „Juventa“ High School.Our school always was famous of it‘s music. Our school is famous not only for his musical achievements. Our students actively participate in various arts, sports contests and competitions. The school is decorated with ever-changing exhibition of works by students. Students participate in various projects: the Comenius, eTwinning, the city and the republic. You can find a primary school drama, road safety, the fine arts section in „Juventa“ school. Visit our website!

Macedonia

“Tode Hadzi-Tefov” Primary School was founded in 1962 by the local authorities in Kavadarci, Macedonia. At the moment, 768 students study at this school. Students are aged from 6 to 15 (from first to ninth grade). Students from first to fifth grade start school at 7:30 a.m. and finish at 12:30 p.m. Students from sixth to ninth grade start school at 1 p.m. and finish at 6:30 p.m. There are 58 teachers and 15 other employees in the school. There are 17 classrooms and 5 cabinets (specialized classrooms). There are 538 computers in the school and there is a computer for every student in the school and an internet connection. Students study in their mother tongue, Macedonian language, which is the official language in Macedonia. Students also study English, French and German. There are 6 teachers who teach English, one teacher who teaches French and one teacher who teaches German. Our school has won the award as a Green School in Macedonia three times. Have a look at our schoolwebsite here!

Malta

Our school forms part of St Theresa College, which includes 6 other schools situated close to the centre of Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. The student population amounts to around 300 boys who are between 12 and 14 years of age. This our first time taking part in the European Chain Reaction project and we are very excited to produce our own inventions!

Moldova

Our school is entitled Theoretical Lyceum "Nicolae Balcescu". It was founded in 1988. It is a school from a rural region. We have about 700 students that come from different villages from the neighbourhood. We have 40 classrooms, 1 canteen, 1 library, 2 gyms, a teacher's room, a festivity hall. The school is situated in Ciorescu, a small village, which is not far from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. Our students are hard-working during lessons and at extra-curricular activities. They practise sports, art, dance etc Our students are fond of working with something interesting and excited like this kind of project.

Norway

Kringsjå skole

Our school is located on the south coast of Norway, just outside the center of Kristiansand. Kristiansand is Norway’s no. 1 summer holiday resort and the fifth largest town in Norway, with 85000 inhabitants.

Situated in a rural area, the school is surrounded by a forest, and within a short walk we also have lakes, the sea, beaches and mountains. We try to use our natural surroundings in our everyday school life.

Kringsjå school is a primary school and this year we have 225 pupils from 1st to 7th grade. Norwegians start school at the age of six and leaves for secondary school at the age of thirteen. At our school we have 30 employees, 18 of them are teachers.

Our school has been involved in international projects earlier, and we are happy to take part in this event. The 33 pupils in the 6th grade are our participants in the European Chain Reaction. We are looking forward to this challenge!

Poland

Our school is a primary school situated in the village Kazmierz (in the West of Poland). Our school has got two buildings. The older one was built in the 19th century. The second building is from 1967.

There are about 450 pupils aged 6 to 13. Visit our website:www.spkazmierz.com.pl This is our first participation in the European Chain Reaction. We are very excited that we have the opportunity to take part in this project.

Good luck! :)

Portugal

The Primary School António Vitorino, is located in the parish of Vieira de Leiria, municipality of Marinha Grande and Leiria district. It is a building with ground floor and 1st floor with eight classrooms, covered courts, a playground and outdoor playgrounds. There is also a Mediatheque / Library which serves to support students of 1st cycle. The students are aged between 6 and 10 years of schooling. The school is open between 8.30 am until to 18.30 pm. Students frequent the disciplines of Portuguese, Mathematics, Environmental Studies, Expressions, Sports, Work and Study Support Integration and still the Complement Curricular Activities: English, ICT, Expressions, Physical Activity and Dance."

Romania

"Petru Rares" School from Hirlau, Romania was founded in 1856. The school currently has over 1,400 pupils aged between 6 and 15 years. The school has a reputation, his students won numerous academic competitions.

We are glad that we are part of this eTwinning project. Good luck in making activities!

Scotland

Scotland will be represented by Yester Primary School, from the small village of Gifford, which is in the hills, about 35km south east of the capital city, Edinburgh. The Primary 3/4 class are looking forward very much to taking part, and to seeing the chain reactions from around Europe. Good luck to all schools!

Slovakia

Humenné is a town in the Prešov Region in eastern Slovakia and the second largest town of the historic Zemplín region. It lies at the volcanic Vihorlat mountains and at the confluence of the Laborec and Cirocha Rivers. Its life is rich in cultural and sports events. The town is a starting point for tourism, because there are numerous opportunities in the picturesque countryside of the East Carpathians. The most attractive places are the Vihorlat Mountains boasting of their Morské oko lake, and the Poloniny at the border of Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine. The surroundings of Humenné, with their romantic ruins of medieval castles and an open-air museum of architecture situated in the town park, are a source of knowledge and relaxation.

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books.

Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment.

Spain

Escola Casa Nostra is in the town of Banyoles in Catalonia, which is near Girona. The primary & high schools are set in beautiful gardens on the shores of Banyoles lake, which is the largest natural lake in Catalonia. Our pupils range from 0 to 16 years of age and learn Catalan, Spanish, English and French, amongst other things. The 6th grade multimedia group who are 11-12 years old are looking forward to participating in ECR2015.

Sweden

We have about 450 pupils in the age of 6 to 13. But the school also have a lower secondary unit. We love networking with schools from around the globe. There is so much to learn from each other. The world is getting smaller and we need to learn more from and about our friends around us. This way we also learn a great deal about ourselves.

We have been involved in Comenius Projects and we are deeply involved with a partnerschool in Southafrica. We have a high ICT standard at our school and we hope to get many pupils and teachers involved in this lovely project. All the best!

The Netherlands

School Kastanjelaan is situated in Leiderdorp a city of 25.000 inhabitants.The youngest pupils are 4 years old and the oldest are 12 years old. We have 8 different classes and 235 pupils. Our class sizes vary from 16 pupils in our smallest class and 34 pupils in our largest class. The majority of our pupils (allmost 95%) is native Dutch. Our school was founded allmost 80 years ago.

The city of Leiderdorp is very near the the city of Leiden. The cities are seperated by two rivers, the Zijl and the Rijn. The history of Leiderdorp starts in Roman times. In the city there are 33 monuments including several windmills.

We have worked on several Comenius and eTwinningprojects before and we are looking forward to working on the chain reaction!

Tunesia

In our School there are 335 students and 25 teachers. We have a computer room and 8 classrooms. Our school is situated in the northeast at about 160 km from our nations capital. This is the first year we are in the project.

Turkey

75. Yıl ilkokulu is situated in Sandıklı-Afyonkarahisar in the western part of Turkey,The city is well-known with thermal water-spa centers and valuable marbles.In our school there are enrolled 309 pupils aged between 5 and 11. We carry out successful eTwinning projects with European schools and our school is only pilot school for itec project(designing the future of classrooms-supported by European school net) in our region.We are strongly interested in encouraging foreign language learning, innovative ICT-based content and better teaching techniques and practices.We think it is very important for pupils in this mixed community to begin to see themselves as citizens of tomorrow's Europe in the wider context of diversity within a common European heritage. The school board, the students' council and the parents' association strongly support the European activity of the school.

Ukraine

Hello to all the participating countries in the competition. Our Gymnasium is situated in the beautiful city Bila Tserkva, which lays about 70 km south of Kyiv. There are about 1000 students from the age of 6 to 17. Our native language is Ukrainian, but children learn English as a foreign language. Pupils are ready to build a chain reaction and eager to enter the competition. We are glad that we are part of this eTwinning project.